It’s #NewstodonFriday once again, and as always, we have a great selection of stories from independent newsrooms. This week’s highlights include @ProPublica’s story about a DJ turned white supremacist influencer, @parkermolloy writing for @damemagazine about the death of legacy media, and @bolts’s @taniel on —yikes — another round of U.S. elections. Please check out these stories and all the others in this thread, comment, like, follow their accounts and give them your money. ⤵️
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The word friends used to describe convenience store worker and part-time DJ Matthew Allison: Goofy. This @ProPublica report explains how he was also a key figure in Terrorgram, a network of white supremacist chat groups and channels. He was arrested last year; prosecutors say he used the Telegram platform to solicit attacks on government infrastructure, encourage the assassination of politicians and distribute instructions for making bombs.
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“Is legacy media dead?” asks @parkermolloy for @damemagazine. She looks at how, with newspaper owners interfering in the work of their reporters, independent media sources are the ones holding power to account. “What independent journalism offers that legacy media increasingly doesn’t is transparency about where it’s coming from. There’s no pretense of objectivity that masks institutional biases and billionaire influence,” she writes. “Readers know what they’re getting, which paradoxically can build more trust than false neutrality.”
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